istanbul not constantinople

so, we're in istanbul. i love this city. i love all the beautiful mosques, and the way they make for such a different city skyline. i love hearing the five daily calls to prayer blaring out over the city through crappy speakers. i love sitting in a tea garden with a fruit hookah and drinking apple tea for hours. i love having my fortune read from my turkish coffee dregs by our waiter, and listening to him bringing us up to date on gossip in the turkish tabloids. i love all the beautiful street cats wandering the city, and the fact that they're never underfed.

but i'm still counting the days till i get to dublin.

i really like this photograph.. this is a photo of myself, alistair, daryl and caroline in our tea garden. the photograph below that is titled "stupid tourists"